Week 27

A little about Week 27:

Wow! By pregnancy week 27 your baby is over 2 pounds and is almost 15 inches long! That's quite large considering your baby's original size was smaller than a grain of rice! Your baby is now perfectly formed, though she still has a lot of growing to do in the upcoming weeks.

During pregnancy week 27 your baby's internal organs and systems continue to grow, mature and develop. Most noticeably, around pregnancy 27 weeks your baby's eyelids will open. Up until this point in time they were fused together. Around pregnancy week 27 and 28 they finally open. During this time the retina of the eye also starts maturing, allowing your baby's eyes to finally receive light and translate images.


How is Jamie doing during Week 27? Well, I'm doing great. I still feel great. I also STILL haven't gained any weight. How is it that I am entering my 7th month of pregnancy and not gained a pound, you may wonder? I have no freaking clue. All I know is that every doctor appointment I have, I'm weighing in at what I did at my 4 month appointment. At first I was really relieved. I still am, really, because I was afraid of gaining too much weight and being miserable. However, it is starting to get old when I have to keep hearing "You don't look pregnant!" "Are you sure you are pregnant?" and the worst..."You better gain some weight for that growing baby!" ugh, like I'm already a bad mother because I'm not putting on enough weight.

For their information, at my last doctor appointment (on the 20th), the doctor said that we're going to have to keep an eye on him-because he's measuring BIG. In fact, she said he's at the high end of measurement for how far along I am. Which boggles the mind even more when you look at my non-existant pregnant belly. But she does want me to eat more and try to gain a little weight, and I'm trying, but its just not happening. I don't know if he's just using a lot of what I'm taking in, or if its because I can't eat as much in one sitting, maybe a combination of both. Either way, rest assured people...the baby is healthy, he kicks me and moves around every day. He's a big boy, despite my lack of getting huge. But it would be nice to show off a pregnant belly. At this rate I'll never look pregnant!

My only complaint lately has been the heartburn. Heartburn after I eat, heartburn when I'm hungry, heartburn for no apparent food-related reason. But Tums have been doing the trick, so I'm popping those several times a day.

Also right now my gums are all torn up. I guess I've had a lot of "abrasive" foods in the past couple days or something. But they hurt, and they do bleed sometimes when I brush, but that is all normal.

I think I had my first Braxton-Hicks contractions a couple of days ago. I would get a little cramp that lasted just a second or two, and later that day another one, then one not long after....even though I knew what it was, it still scared me a little.

Other than that, Stephen will be home in exactly 30 days. I think I found us a duplex in Imperial, but still waiting to hear on that. And right now I'm really wiped out, so more later, but for now...sleep.